Daawat Newsletter      February 04, 2002      Issue # 35

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Ingredients:

1 loaf bread (small)
1 litre milk
500 gms sugar
250 gms double cream
250 gms clarified butter
100 gms chopped and roasted cashewnuts
100 gms almonds (soaked and chopped fine)
100 gms raisins
10 gm saffron
5 cardamoms, powdered

Double-Ka-Meetha
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An Indian Hyderabadi famous and delicious dessert dish made with bread, milk, cream, butter and lots of nuts

Method:
  1. Cut each bread slice into four pieces. Fry them in clarified butter till golden brown.
  2. Make a sugar syrup by adding half a litre of water to the sugar and boil it for 15 minutes. Add the powdered cardamom and the saffron dissolved in milk to the sugar syrup. Boil milk until it is thickened.
  3. Arrange the fried bread pieces on a flat tray and sprinkle the chopped nuts on them. Pour the sugar syrup, double cream and milk alternately over the bread pieces while they are still hot.
  4. Refrigerate and serve as dessert.

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Cooking:

Add a pinch of turmeric powder to the oil before adding green vegetables. The vegetables will retain their greenness better even after cooking.
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Fungus cells used to produce alcoholic fermentation or to cause dough to rise.